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|    James Van Buskirk to Bernhard Schornak    |
|    Re: Fast Fizz Buzz program    |
|    22 Jul 18 06:02:58    |
      From: not_valid@nospicedham.comcast.net              "Bernhard Schornak" wrote in message news:pj1ole$sl1$1@dont-email.me...              > fizz buzz wrote:              > Plain copy operations are faster than complex calculations with       > a lot of comparisons and not continuously repeating conditional       > jumps. One conditional branch with random branch target 'costs'       > the same time than multiple cacheline writes, shuffling 64 byte       > blocks simultaneously.              That's why you do 8 in parallel in ymm registers with branchless       code.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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